Expectancies and impression management: evidence-informed guidelines for lecturers

In order to make a good first impression, lecturers need to understand how students draw conclusions about what they can or do expect based on their initial impressions. While these first impressions are not unchangeable, creating a good first impression can be highly influential to the development of effective student-lecturer relationships. Thus, the ideas and evidence presented herein give lecturers’ a framework broadly relating to verbal and non-verbal cues so that they can make deliberate decisions about how to present themselves in professional environments.